F.A.O. people considering selling a ZS
 

Don't do it, I regret getting rid of mine everyday! Now all I need is someone to buy my fooking convertible!

I dont know how you could sell it, someone who wants mine will have to prise the keys from my cold, dead hands.

lol your telling everyone not to sell so what one you gonna buy craig:P

I would only sell mine to buy another. :)

Well at least you have tried a few others and found something unique in the ZS, what makes you miss it Craig?

Mick, the ZS has the full package. Its a complete all rounder. Handling is superb, its fairly fast, the Volvo was super fast and would leave a 180 dead but it handled like a bus! 5 series was better built, but none of them feel special like the ZS. The ZS has fun factor built in as standard.

As you all know i sold mine back in Jan and regret every min of it (apart from fuel side lol)

craig i will GIVE you mine take it away a will even pay you!!!!
a will use a :horse:

dont ye want me dont ye want me dont ye want ma love ,only kidding mate how much ye wanna buy her back for

dont regret getting rid of mine..

I should've kept my Mk1 ...... Never mind though.

as soon as mine is back from the garage im going to sell it as im soon to be 25 and my sp50 is now gone from my lisence so means i can get a much more powerfull car :D

I miss mine some times, but don't regret selling it. It wasn't what I wanted and would be too expensive to get it to where I wanted it to be.

On the plus note, I knew that MG's handled well so have built 2 track cars out of them :smile1:

Haha im on my 3rd now but having vis issues is putting a serious downer on her atm and iv been looking else where again :unsure: , but hopefully iv fixed the vis issue today just waiting to go test drive her. Lets put it this way iv had 50 odd cars over the short period iv had a license and the zs is up there with my old wrx for funfactor, but as craig has said its an all rounder which is why im back in one again :)

If I'm honest, I'm considering selling my 180...

Not for the fuel costs, but because that power through the front wheels is starting to get annoying! I miss RWD, and I miss turbos :(

Ditto!

The ZS was the most unreliable and poorly built cars that I have owned, and I'm now on my 10th..

It's a bit much when a 18 year old Honda is an all round better car than a 5 year old MG!

Bit harsh perhaps Will .... You mention an old Honda being a better all-round car. What are you comparing ?

10 cars is nothing mate and loads of factors contribute to whether yours has been a good one or not.

Over the past 2 years - amongst other cars, I've owned 3 ZSs - all 180s - and not had a reliability issue with any of them. We all look for different things in our cars pal. What I looked for in mine was smiles per mile and I got plenty.

Your sig indicates that you were a miles per gallon man - and it also looks like you got plenty too.

I agree that it does read a little harsh, but I am only relaying the facts from my (and my families) experience.. As for my driving style, I am also a smiles per mile man but restricted by my commute to something that is also economical.

1992 Rover Metro, 30k
1996 Citroen Saxo, 67k
1988 Honda CRX, 160k
1993 Honda CRX, 136k
2001 Honda Civic, 36k
2004 Smart Roadster-Coupe, 18k
1987 Honda CRX, 156k
1996 Honda Prelude, 67k

Each one of the above has given me less grief, been built better, cost me less money and never let me down half as much as the ZS did..

Granted it might have been a lemon (and I'm sure it was a Friday afternoon car), but there's still a lot to be said when a 5 year old car is shown up by a now 22 year old Honda :blink:

The old man has had loads of problems with his MG ZT, and my mum had the head gasket done twice on her 26k mile Rover 25 - not to mention the long list of other stuff she had to do on it before she traded it in..

Our house was a MG-Rover house, but come Christmas a Fiat, Smart and Skoda will have replaced them - all down to reliability.

We are all guilty of wearing rose tinted shades when we drive a car, I for one was the first person to defend my 'little Rover' when someone criticized it, only now do I realised that I was defending them a little too much

As with all sides of things there will always be different opinions and perceptions, i had 4 years of trouble free miles (about 50k milage) out of my zs before i decided to molest it.

I personally wont be selling mine unless unforseen circumstances dramatically change my life. eg i can no longer drive or i can't afford to even run one car.

I know i am a some-what special case with the amount spent on mine, but for me dont think you will find a car for as little money as most models sell for for that will not give you that simple driving pleasure - and each of the models do something slightly different too. so there are horses for coourses as it were :)

my plan for when mine becomes un-economical to keep on the road (who says it is not already :laugh: ) is to strip it an take it even further on the tuning side of things. by that time i would have a big old barge to tow it and will store it off road etc.

I do however need to tighten my belt a bit as i am bout to move house so wont be able to just throw money at it anymore; so i am hoping that it's current strip down and rebuilt will be the last for a long while!

I have to admit I had mine in bits a good few times over the year I owned it too... considering it wasn't that old I suppose you could say it was un-reliable to joe public. But being a bit of an enthusiast I don't think I really bothered about it and it was never anything major.

the niggles do add up though

Interesting thoughts here, I have had around 60 cars in my lifetime, can't say the MG has ever been considered a poor one in comparison to what I have previously owned.

Alot of you will probably say we should stick with 'German' cars due to the build quality and the 'Germanic' way they are put together. VW springs to mind "if only everything in life was as reliable as a Volkswagon"

But hold a minute there MG beaters................if I am not mistaken the common faults, especially the 180, are the plenums, vis valves and seat SRS leads..............these are all German parts! (not sure who makes the clutch slave and master cylinders mind)

I can fondly remember a Renault being a pig blowing more gaskets than a poorly maintained k-series. An Audi that used to eat fuel pumps, a Vauxhall that used to leak more oil more than a BP well head. Also had Ford that ate void bushes like they were marshmallows!

Even a brand new Citroen Xsara Picasso, bought on two occassions, had to have recalls for dodgy fuel tanks and pedals IIRC.

My particular ZS has been a joy to own over +5 years, very little gone wrong and always easily fixed. On a like for like age basis I have owned worse cars of the same age that required more attention than Jordans mattress.

im suprised. i have never had any issues with a zs other than ones i have induced.

never had clutch hydros fail
never had vis fail but then i did have charger

every car has its niggles, but the zs was one of them that you could put up with them, if you wanted a car without niggles you would be pushed to find one, especially for the money zs's sell for nowadays

i may be swapping my zs for an astra on sunday,dreading it, but when its been thru what my car has its time to move on,belts have just been changed,only done 77000,its pretty much immaculate,only thing is its red but beggars cant really be choosers eh!

Had my Impreza nearly 2 years and never had a single issue or niggle with it, none of the interior has fallen off and it doesn't even have any annoying rattles/squeaks!

So it seems Jap is the way forward!

But then you couldnt get the RB320 with ZS money could you! Honda recently came top in a reliability report for 5th year in a row

Well this is a discussion! lol

I've owned plenty of cars over the years, in the early days i went through cars every 3 months, as well as having new company cars every six months from the age of 17....


to list a few examples
Nova SRi's, GTE and a club

Golf mk3 TDi's, Gti's and 1 16v

Golf Mk2 Syncro, Gti 8v, Gti 16v(loved it!)

Golf Mk1 GX (my first Mk1) 2 GTi Cabs and several projects

Two Rocco's currently a scalla kjet.(loving it)

Vento VR6

MG Monty (fond memories)

*hitron BX TD, Volcane 2.0i

Mk1 Mondeo V6

Escort 1.6, Xr3 and Xr3i

Fiesta 1.1, Xr2

Alfa 33 Boxer Permanent 4 (loved it!)

none of them cost me as much to maintain as my ZS TD, but then again none of them apart from 16v Mk2 come close to the drivability of the z'd I drive with a sturdy right foot and have coverd 80k in 3 years and toyed with it, biggest bummer was the ECU but hey.... i no longer let the wife have the spare key :P


Funny i did dream the other night that i tradedthe Z'd for a Scooby.... i woke up and checked outside the front window and my nightmare was over!

PS i HAVE NEVER AND WILL NEVER OWN A CORSA!!!

Who really buys a mg rover for reliabilty tho? I mean really..... A true petrol head loves playing with his/her cars and hence is willing to spend the time and money to fix your busted motors. We buy these cars because they put a smile on your face every drive, and have piles of character! I love my zed's and you couldnt get the keys off me if u tried!!

Top post! Completly agree Id loose intrest in a car if there was nothing to do on it

Totally agree, 100%...

But when it's unreliability means that you can't get to work on a regular basis then it becomes more of an issue..

I work on average 3 days a week; at one point I was getting lifts 1 or 2 days a week as the car wouldn't start or was sitting on axle stands on the drive..

There are only so many times you can ask someone to do a 100 mile trip to take you to and from work before they get annoyed!:laugh:

well been driving the zr since tuesday now and been really loving it, reallyy nice wee car, and the zs has been parked up the garden,
well thought id take it out a wee blast tonight god you forget how nice a drive it is, i mean really, mnines only a 1.6 but it still puts a smile on my face evry time i pull out my driveway and engage first, had mine 2 and a half years now and no major problems at all! ive done work to it but tbh nothing it needed, i love tinkering about with it, and never threated about it going through an MOT, i work in a huge garage and the cars you see coming in and whats worse when comes to health check time MOT time the rovers are up there in the good list of cars definatly,

not since ive bought my car have i walked through our showroom and see a car for around that money that i would even remotley consider swapping mine for hope to keep it a long time even if its just in my garden just love loking at it, like having a wee long look at it out the window sometimes

100% I look at it, and i feel all warm... and dare I say a little bit moist:blink:

I love my zs. But I do get bored often and I change something, I now have chrome mirrors on it. But I wouldn't love it so much if I didn't change things on it. I haven't had anything go wrong until tonight when the door Handel came off in my friends hand, And the cool whisteling noise, but i like that lol. Iv done nearly 15k since I got the car, ( now on 44700 ) and that's what's went wrong. My mums old BMW hadnt done 15k since new and she had major problems with it cutting out on her at any point, never knew when it would have happened. Generally with the cars that's been in the golder house, the mg and rovers have been the moast reliable. Shogun, c200, 316 compact, Audi 80 have all had something big done on them

My next car, wil be another zs, and then I can start the tinkering all over again :)

In essence if we wanted a reliable car that required nil maintenance we would not be a member of any club or forum. We would not give a hoot about what we are driving and treat it as such. We are all enthusiasts and that is what we do, we use them, we play with them, we find what makes them tick and tell everybody about it.

There are times when I think shall I get a 'normal' car.................that state of mind lasts for seconds and I say nah! Press that start button and all's good :D

If no-one on here has never owned and tinkered with a classic Mini then you haven't lived! I have had eight over the years and loved them all.

i have to say this is only wanting me to get a zed even more

i know it might not be the most relible car to have first but it will have alot more character and i quote

i will be the same and that's why i choose to get a zed as a first car

I am on my fourth mg-rover car and I have had very few reliability problems the worst was my clutch going in January that is the only time my car hasn't been able to take me to work

Absolutely, if we all want to be a boring soulless bastards we all be driving VW Golf.

My old 105 Mk2 ZR was my first car. Cracking car to start off with

I love my BRG zs120+, and have a feeling it will be with me for sometime, that being said the silver 120+, I have recently rescued and treated to a new engine will be for sale soon, if anyone is interested.

Also supposed to be rescuing another one tonight LOL

The ZS is my first MG after they had my head turning whenever I saw a MK2 saloon.
great car to drive in the twisty country lanes and Very Very affordable with great looks.
I am very tempted though to move up to a 180 but fear I will regret parting with a fantastic,cheap & reliable everyday runaround.
When Ive paid of the 110 then I could get a 180 as a wkend toy.